Word: christly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Oxford.- (Bow) W. F. C. Holland, of Brazenose, 153 1-2 pounds; 2-E. J. Burr, of St. John, 154 pounds; 3-M. E. Bradford, of Christ Church, 158 1-2 pounds; 4-S. R. Fothergill, of New, 175 pounds; 5-N. Cross, of Hertford, 177 1-2 pounds; 6-N. R. Parker, of Brazenose, 182 pounds; 7-J. Nickalls, of Magdalen, 172 pounds; 8-L. Frere, of Brazenose, (stroke), 141 pounds; coxswain-F. P. Bulley, of Magdalen...
...lives are less easily molded. Wax must be stamped when it is warm. Whenever a man raises an ideal late in life, he always regrets the possibility of achievement which might have been his, had he awakened sooner. If we begin early to follow the example of Christ, the goodness which at first comes by reflection will become instinctive...
There was an unusually large number of students and visitors present at vespers last evening. After Dr. F. G. Peabody made the introductory prayer, the cxxxviii. Psalm was read by the congregation. Dr. Phillips Brooks spoke very feelingly of the incident of Christ in the wilderness. He said it was at this time that the Saviour of men first recognized in himself that inherent power of resisting evil which He observed other men did not possess. The speaker cautioned his hearers to beware of turning the powers they did possess to base ends, but to devote them to the development...
...Hale, who is now conducting these services, has adopted a new way of making them interesting. He reads from the Evangelists chapters selected so as to give the life of Christ in a chronological way. This idea is new and makes the conception of the life of Christ more real and vivid than is obtained from the usual reading of the New Testament. The benefit derived from a daily glimpse of a pure strong life is not to be doubted; and if a man aims only at self-culture, he could scarcely spend fifteen minutes of each day more profitably...
...Hale conducted the services. He did not confine himself to any one text, but took the third chapter of the Gospel of St. John as a basis for his sermon. He stated primarily that he would discuss the chronology of the first part only of the life of Christ, leaving the chronology of the second part until the following Sunday. He spoke in substance as follows: "The narrative of the first half of the life of Christ was so gloomy and apparently unproductive that the three Gallilian gospels touch but lightly upon it. It was thought to be a period...